THE TOPOGRAPHY AND ANTIQUITIES OF ROME; INCLUDING THE RECENT DISCOVERIES MADE ABOUT THE FORUM AND THE VIA SACRA. BY THE REV. RICHARD BURGESS, CHAPLAIN TO THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND CONGREGATION AT ROME, THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD AYLMER. LONGMAN, REES, ORME, brown, and GREEN, PATERNOSTER-ROW. 1831. TO HIS GRACE, THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM AND CHANDOS, &c. &c. MY LORD DUKE, In presenting this work on ancient Rome to your Grace, I thankfully acknowledge the flattering manner in which my desire of dedicating it to you was gratified. Conversant and familiar as you are known to be with the various branches of learning and science, I am confident that any work of a literary character could not be more favourably introduced to the notice of the public than under sanction of your Grace; but the peculiar satisfaction it affords me arises from your special knowledge of the subject treated of in the following pages. It was whilst you |